Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-06
FOOTLIGHT FIICKERs.

The title of Nym Crinklc's new play is
''The plebeian."
Barnum and %Forcpaugh open up in New
York on March ii.
Digby Bell considers "Ruddygorc" equal
to the ''Mikado."
William Yardley is writing a new play
for N. G. Goodwin.
Lawrence Barrett drew over $40, 600 in
two weeks in Chicago.
Edwin Booth has been playing in Cali
fornia cities this week.
Evans and Hoey are having Il successful
season in the West.
1t is rumOred that Rhea will remain in
America another season.
Charles Wyndham may come to this
country next season.
"HoOdman Blind" has been bought by
F. l.. Pcrley for next season.
"Erminie" will probably run 300 nights
at the New York Casino.
w. J. Scanlan's play, "The Irish Mia
~strel," has been entirely rewritten.
Ellie Ellsler begins a tour of the South
west at Pine Bluff, Ark, MarchS s.
Augusta Foster, of Edwin Booths Com
pany, will probably star next season.
Eben Plympton's Jack" Company has
dishanded and the play has been laid by.
George c. Min has had another strug-
gle with Shakespeare in Chicago. Poor
George!
Kate Castleton's new song, Excuse Me,
I'll Tell You No More, " is becoming very
popular.
The Rosina NOkes Comedy Company has
been averaging 81 900 a night in PhIladel-
phia.
appear rs FdiStaf in the second part of
Henry w."
Alexander Salvini will support Helen
Dauvray in her text production at the
Lyceum Theater, New York.
Among the burlesques now on the road
are "My-Card-Ohw ''He-Done-Us'' and
Rye Ends, Us" (Rienzii.
1.-THE TOboggan Slide" is said to be the
most taking song in Harrigan's play NC
MONEYS Visit.
The sale of advance seats for ''Ruddy-
gore in London and also in New York
has been the largest ever known for light
opera.
Robert Buchanan says that if his new
drama, "The Blue Bells of ScOtladd," is
not a success he will never write another
play.
At the conclusion of his season ut the
New York Biiou, Nat Goodwin goes to
Philadelphia, where he will appear in
Little Jack Sheppard
The friends of Fay TempletOn claim
that she has been misrepresented by the
cable dispatches concerning her objection
able costume, and that because she held
aloOl from the greenroOm carouSals and re-
fused To he mashed" by lords and dukes.
the injunction was brought to annoy.
Sara Bernhardt believes that touching
tile shoulder of a hunchhark person brings
good luck, while Patti will not sign u con-
tract OH Tuesday.
The first score of Verdi's "OthellO" ar
rived in New York on February |. 1t came
for Nine. Fursch-Madi, with the cOmpli-
ments of the composer.
Between the acts with the Amateurs
care ~.4. never troubled with stage fright,
Miss Gassbagse?" "Why, what can you
he thinking of, Mr.. SOftSope? I've been
acting these two years" Eyes, | know;
hut | understand Rachel used tO have a
picnic every evening when she first went
on the stage" "Ah! hut | am not Rachel"
-T0TH Topics.
There are now over 800 men ut work on
the building and grounds of the American
Exposition at London. The arena Of the
Wild West Show il nearly completed.
There are seats for m, 900 and the arrange
ments generally are on n very extensive
scale. Workmen will soon begin to put
the roof on the Exposition Building proper
and the goods for exhibition will 500 be-
gin to arrive.
Tony Pastor will begin his season on
the road in Philadelphia, April II. His
company will include Harry and John
Kernel, the Clipper Quartette, Joe Hart,
Frank Bush. the three PhOites, Kate and
Gussie Hart, Isabella Ward, George Park
er, the Julians, Tom and BERTHE BrantfOrd,
Rice and Barton, Bryant and Richmond
and Major Newell. Harry SandersOn will
be the manager, ~ usual.
When Madame Cavalazzi is on the street
she looks anything but like the fairy-like
being who whirls and pirouttes on the tips
OF her toes in the ballet. She was out in
Saturdays storm so thickly wrapped that
she might have been taken for a fat Ger
man instead of a slender Italian. She is \
follower of Izaak Walton and intends to
hold the rod again this summer over the
streams in England.-NeIc York Tribune.
The waits between Clara Morris acts
have now assumed a length which is alb
normal. Monday there was a wait Of %
minutes, and Wednesday night n wait of 40
minutes. New Workers are quite patient
about this sort of thing, as the foyer has
gradually become an institution there, but
San Francisco will not put up with il, un-
less they are allowed to see the picnic that
is going on in the dressing room. That
would draw Of itself.7SdA Francisco Ar
gOHdHt.